| Author | Message | ||
| precarius
Advanced Member Username: precarius Post Number: 240 Registered: 11-2005 |
This is an ignorant question, but in what year did Alembic start using the dual truss rods? Mike | ||
| oggydoggy
Intermediate Member Username: oggydoggy Post Number: 155 Registered: 3-2003 |
Mike, My '77 has the dual truss rod system. I owned a '75 that had a single, not sure about '76. Best Wishes, -Ed | ||
| willgunn
Junior Username: willgunn Post Number: 16 Registered: 2-2007 |
My first Alembic, which I'd received in June 1976 directly from Alembic (#AC 76 405, a very customized short-scale w/Series II Electronics) had a single truss rod. I think it's safe to say that the change from single to double occurred sometime in the area between late '76 and early '77. -Will Gunn | ||
| hieronymous
Advanced Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 216 Registered: 1-2005 |
My '75 doubleneck has a single truss rod for the fretless and dual truss rods for the 30" scale baritone neck, so put that date back to at least '75. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 2661 Registered: 7-2004 |
birthdate: 8/19/76  Bill, tgo | ||
| hieronymous
Advanced Member Username: hieronymous Post Number: 217 Registered: 1-2005 |
There is a post partway down the page here by dela217 that states that dual trussrods didn't become standard until late 1977, although they showed up here and there before then. | ||
| 82daion
Intermediate Member Username: 82daion Post Number: 107 Registered: 5-2005 |
I think it's safe to say that they changed somewhere between '75 and '77. My '75 SI has a single rod, and seems no less stable for it. | ||
| 811952
Senior Member Username: 811952 Post Number: 1175 Registered: 10-2003 |
The necks seem to have also gotten appreciably bigger in cross-section when the dual trussrods came onto the scene. Some of the earlier single-truss basses I've had the pleasure of fondling sported very thin necks.. John |
